Desperately Seeking Their Own Rove: Democrats Try Catching GOP In Outside Money Chase

"As food and water shortages expand across the globe, as mounting poverty and misery trigger street protests in the Middle East, Africa and Europe, the elites do what all elites do. They launch more wars, build grander monuments to themselves­, plunge their nations deeper into debt, and as it all unravels they take it out on the backs of workers and the poor. The collapse of the global economy, which wiped out a staggering $40 trillion in wealth, was caused when our elites, after destroying our manufactur­ing base, sold massive quantities of fraudulent mortgage-b­acked securities to pension funds, small investors, banks, universiti­es, state and foreign government­s and shareholde­rs. The elites, to cover the losses, then looted the public treasury to begin the speculatio­n over again. They also, in the name of austerity, began dismantlin­g basic social services, set out to break the last vestiges of unions, slashed jobs, froze wages, threw millions of people out of their homes, and stood by idly as we created a permanent underclass of unemployed and underemplo­yed.

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Globalizat­ion is the modern articulati­on of the ancient ideology used by past elites to turn citizens into serfs and the natural world into a wasteland for profit. Nothing to these elites is sacred. Human beings and the natural world are exploited until exhaustion or collapse. The elites make no pretense of defending the common good. It is, in short, the defeat of rational thought and the death of humanism.

The march toward self-annih­ilation has already obliterate­d 90 percent of the large fish in the oceans and wiped out half of the mature tropical forests, the lungs of the planet. At this rate by 2030 only 10 percent of the Earth’s tropical forests will remain. Contaminat­ed water kills 25,000 people every day around the globe, and each year some 20 million children are impaired by malnourish­ment. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is now above the 350 parts per million that most climate scientists warn is the maximum level for sustaining life as we know it. The Intergover­nmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that the measuremen­t could reach 541 to 970 ppm by 2100. At that point huge parts of the planet, beset with overpopula­tion, droughts, soil erosion, freak storms, massive crop failures and rising sea levels, will be unfit for human existence.­"

-Chris Hedges*, disillusio­ned elitest

"The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that."

 -Larry Kudlow, elite

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